Global Director Technology Procurement

Global Director Technology Procurement 📍 Location: Weybridge (Hybrid – 2 days onsite) 🕒 Type: Full time, Permanent

Position Purpose Global Procurement is committed to deliver a significant contribution towards Brambles growth goals, enabling the markets to win through Procurement using breakthrough category strategies and sourcing execution to support operating margin improvement and competitive advantage. Indirect Procurement categories tend to be complex with varying stakeholder needs, significant external spend and key relationships up to and including executive level.

The prime accountability for this role is to drive value through ensuring the commercial elements of spend in these categories are executed brilliantly with our vendors. This role will lead sourcing decisions with key stakeholders that is enabled through a business partnering approach with the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the IT Leadership Team. This role will apply & oversee category management to support the maximization of value, whilst minimizing risk from all external spend and assuring quality of delivery and performance.

Key Accountabilities Be an effective Business Partner & trusted advisor to the CIO and each of the ITLT members Challenge the ways of working with a focus on the ‘game-changers’ leveraging scale & skill Co-create 3-year strategic plan with clear deliverables for the global procurement categories of IT, Telecoms & Network Deliver savings targets that are procurement led, support SOF initiatives across the category portfolio Support the delivery and assignments of all procurement “enabled” Shaping-our-Future (SOF) initiatives across the portfolio including direct reports and wider procurement teams as necessary Play an active role in the IT annual budget process Maintain and review the records of procured IT products and services Monitoring and control unrolling contracts Develop the Strategic Vendor Management Function to enable greater value, compliance, and identify & reduce risk Be a trusted advisor to the regional procurement teams as required

🎯 What We’re Looking For Charismatic personality, managing Senior stakeholders at global scale (ITLT/ C-suite) Global mentality and collaborative approach Leads by example and directs the category teams to find additional information Ability to articulate the supply market and take that knowledge to develop a strategy/executable plan Minimum Bachelor’s degree or MBA Certification as MCIPS is desirable Strong IT Category or commodity management experience as Procurement Director on a Global level Multiple years’ experience within a large international business Cost & financial management Supplier management English is a must have – fluency in Spanish is an advantage Knowledge within the category across multiple industries and subcategories

💼 What’s in It for You? Annual bonus Car allowance Private healthcare (family cover) 25 days holiday + statutory holidays, with the option to buy/ sell 5 additional days Company pension Life Assurance

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